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You’re never too old for Halloween. It’s a fun fall festivity that should continue long after our toddlers have flown the nest. Life brings many challenges–disease, financial difficulties–and the best […]
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My mother had a 3 story house that is broken into one studio apartment with a bathroom in the basement, a 2-bedroom duplex on the first and second floor. I […]
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by Neil Chethik – Sigmund Freud called it the most poignant loss of his life. Sean Connery termed it a shattering blow. Norman Mailer likened it to having a […]
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By Reg Green — Recently, in the restaurant of a Northern Italian hotel, someone in our group told the waiter I was the father of a seven-year-old California boy who […]
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Newsflash: You don’t have to like your mother to love her. This, for some of us is a relief. We feel like bad sons or bad daughters if every thing’s […]
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Martha from Utah writes: Your blog comments would have been of immense help the first couple of years after my husband’s death. We had been married for 45 years. […]
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By Ken Doka — When we are grieving one needs all the support we can get. One needs to use every tool, every resource that works. Grief can be a […]
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By Abel Keogh — It’s hard to find a movie that effectively deals with the subject of grief. Occasionally however, there’s one that really deals with the subject in a […]
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Vanessa writes in: On November 27, 2007, my boyfriend’s mother died suddenly at age 43. She was found dead in her bed by my boyfriend and his 13-year-old brother. It […]
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by Sandy Fox I would encourage anyone, who needs the help of a support group to deal with the death of a child, to start their own if there is […]
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